Truth at its Most Brilliant
DAGUPAN City Mayor Benjamin S. Lim is deadset about fighting House Speaker Jose de Venecia in the next congressional elections, a confrontation that may well be described as a battle royale.
Lim, as earlier gleaned from his actuations, was expected by observers to severe his ties with the fourth district congressman which he did lately apparently due to differences in the implementation of projects in the city.
By DANNY O. SAGUN
PIA Pangasinan Infocenter
LINGAYEN – Motorists whose vehicles are equipped with mobile air conditioning systems (MACs) should take note of this: Use of freon R12 is no longer accepted and the Land Transportation Office will no longer register vehicles with MACs that use said freon type in accordance with the Clean Air Act.
A memorandum dated December 27, 2005 from the LTO sent to its regional directors, district heads, and motor vehicle inspectors advised them that under Sec. 11e of the Revised CCO, “use of CFC (chlorofluorocarbons) in MACs starting 2006 in motor vehicles manufactured and/or initially registered from 1999 onwards shall be prohibited from registration, and starting 2012 in all motor vehicles.”
By JULIE JAVELLANA-SANTOS
www.ofwjournalism.net
MANILA – They lobbied long and hard for a law to allow Filipinos overseas to vote; some drumming up the need for their fellow overseas workers to register before the deadline in August next year ends.
But with constitutionalists’ move to cancel the 2007 elections, absentee voting advocates say they can’t help but feel betrayed.
SAYAN INDIO
Mario F. Karateka
AWEY no akin et saray kabalabag tayod Medya natan et singa masyadoy interes dad politika ed tersero distrito (third district). No nen dati et pibitla da iratay ngaran ya Leo Boy de Vera, Angel Baniqued, Tulagan, Resuello tan ingen pati Ponsing Soriano singa aaroman da natan na Rachel Arenas. Tan mas dakel ni so bitlad radyo tan diad dyaryo ed sayan anak nen sosyalayt Rosemarie “Baby” Arenas ingen amo.
E D I T O R I A L
EVERY Filipino with even just a moderate grasp of current events and basic psychology can sense it: The Philippine military, that is, the Armed Forces, is very dangerously politicized. No one can now particularly put a finger on who among our post-Marcos regime leaders, both in the civilian and military, developed or encouraged this situation to a point where every general, colonel, major, captain, lieutenant and enlisted man now has no more qualms about making public his adverse sentiment or protest when things don’t seem to go his way or his liking. The vaunted military discipline has long flown out the window.
AFTER ALLBehn Fer. Hortaleza, Jr.
FIDEL Valdez Ramos is definitely playing a puzzling Game of the Generals. Even one of his closest “generals” in the local scene today, Dagupan’s Mayor Benjie Saplan Lim, appears uncomfortable and confused by the ex-president’s body languages. This was apparent in Benjie’s almost down-on-my-knees entreaty to FVR for the latter to “enlighten us x x x what specific steps you will take to save our country from going to the dogs.”
THE PEN SPEAKS
Danny O. Sagun
EXPECT a battle royale in the fourth congressional district – if Mayor Benjie Lim does not backtrack from his already declared intention to fight Speaker Joe de Venecia.
Lim is no pushover in political wars as seen in his previous successful bids. Joe de V is a veteran and the fourth district is practically his domain that he could not give to just anyone. Both have resources and backers. Their possible face-off may be a first in political battles the magnitude of which the city or province has never seen.
SMORGASBORD
By Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre
“I AM not the kind of person who declares early. I let the people speak for me.”
This was sixth district Rep. Conrad M. Estrella III’s answer when asked whether he’s going to run for governor of Pangasinan in 2007.
WINDOWS
By Gabriel L. Cardinoza
WHILE walking along the tiled pavement fronting the CSI Square one midday, I saw a blind man on his knees facing the smooth walls of one corner of the elevated decorative flower boxes just a few meters away from the fountain and the pedestrian lane at the corner of Galvan St..
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